La Tosca (1908)

A courtly drama of a bridegroom arrested for being intimate with the queen. To secure his release, his future bride sleeps with his rival. The film is incomplete. Missing is the ending, where the bride obtains a forged letter of passage and murders the rival, but then has to watch as her betrothed is executed after the letter is found to be forged. The film includes a single rare hand-coloured scene. FRAGMENT. (stumfilm.dk)

Released Nov. 17, 1908 6 min None+

Genres: Drama, History, Romance, Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, mdblist.three-actors, aspectratio.1-33-1

Production Companies: Nordisk Film

Country: Denmark
Languages: No Language